Flying by ...

Hi there!

I'm still here and I just haven't done much blogging lately ... though I have been keeping up with you all ... 

I am getting better each day and so far the test results have been favourable and I am hoping that today's will turn out to be good ... thank God for heat patches I say!

I managed to get a project done for Thursday Club and was able to spend time with my group ... they made owl door hangers with pockets and note pads ... I gave them each a mini calculator and pen to put in the pocket with their note pad ... they were happy!

So all I have to share today is the good news that I won the LESSology doggy bag challenge with This 

I am so thrilled! and just want to say a Big Thank you to LESSology

And a card I made for a friend of my husband who recently underwent back surgery

Using Prima Printery papers and a lovely bird image from The Graphics fairy

I hope you have a wonderful weekend ...

Till soon my friends ... thanking you for your well wishes and sweet comments

~ Ros ~

City Crafter Harvest Festival

Good Morning!

It's my turn to host at City Crafter this week and we are celebrating

Harvest Festival

  

I am asking that you to create a card or project that includes something related to the harvest of the land ...

Here in the UK we don't have Thanksgiving Day ... but for as long as I can remember we always had Harvest Festival at school and at church ... when we would bring offerings of fruit or vegetables and give thanks to God for blessing us with the harvest. Some of the kids brought the most beautifully decorated baskets of  fruit ... all the offerings were distributed to the poor and needy ... Looking back WE were the poor and needy and yet my Mum always managed to find us something to give ... there was no fancy wrappings but it didn't matter ... I was just so proud to place my things on the altar ... 

My project is in memory of those gifts and because I am grateful that I live in a time and place where food is plentiful

Yep, still using that basket template ...

... and adorning it with flowers, leaves and fruit ... even a little dough bread ...

I hope you will join our celebration ... the winner this week will be invited as a Guest Designer in one of our upcoming challenges ... Please hop over to the blog to see all our DT projects and meet this weeks' wonderful Guest Designer Wendi ... I hope to see you there ...

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Jingle Belles Card 42

I finally got my card done ... 

This is my second post today and earlier I was still looking for my inspiration 

This weeks challenge at Jingle Belles is to make a card based on any Christmas holiday song or carol and I think my card speaks for itself ... easy to guess huh?

... the music sheet gives it away ...

"Oh Christmas Tree"
 ... covered in mica flakes and perhaps not the usual colour DP for Christmas ... It was a scrap I had and I just love the colour 

I know I've used this folded tree design before ... I don't tire of it ... it's easy and so effective ... for the trunk I used some corrugated cardboard ... painted with distress stains

Till soon ... have a lovely day/evening

~ Ros ~

A Thank you ...

Hello sweet friends ...

I am still here ... and my back is improving but my hip is still a problem ... Unfortunately I am not very good with painkillers ... they mess with my head ... even the smallest dose seems to make me groggy ... so here I am trying to clear the fog and come up with a card for this weeks' challenge at Jingle Bells ... without success ... Then the post arrived and Wow!! just look what I got from my lovely and very talented friend .. Ira 

Look at that adorable cat Ira made me!! I just love it!

and these beautiful satin gloves .. to handle the cat ha! ha! (or to wear with my Chanel No. 5) 

... and that is not all ... she even sent me some gorgeous papers and beautiful die cuts ...

I am doing a happy dance (one legged of course) ...

Thank you so much Ira .... you really made my day and I am so grateful 

I also have a Thank you to say to lovely Linda of Hands to work Hearts to Love for passing on this Butterfly Award to me

I have to answer 12 questions ....

1. My favourite colour ... I really don't have one .. it depends on what it's for
2. My favourite song .... (difficult)... but I love "I vow to thee my country"
3. My favourite dessert ... Anything with almonds or marzipan
4. What ticks me off at the moment ... My Hip!!
5. My favourite pet ... Has to be a dog
6. Black or White ... For what?
7. Biggest fear ... Heights!!! 
8. Best feature ... My son
9. Everyday attitude ... Thank God I'm upright and breathing
10. What is perfection ... To love and be loved
11. Guilty pleasure ... I can't tell you that!
12. When I'm upset I ... Retreat into myself

So now I have to pass this on but there are so many of you that I would like to pass this to so please feel free to take it  ... 
I will be back tomorrow with another challenge at City Crafter ... thank you all so much for your well wishes ... for your comments and for visiting me ... What would I do without you?


Take care 


~ Ros ~

Dancing Queen

Hi there ...
I want to share a precious photo with you ... this is Mel the sweet little daughter of Jacira at her dancing class ...

and she is wearing the outfit I sent her ... the little Tinkerbell dress, wings and all! Jacira says she loves it and I am so happy to see that beautiful little face and know that the outfit fits her so well too! Isn't she just adorable?

I also wanted to let you know that I may not be around for a while ... I hate to complain .. But

on monday afternoon I was doing some housework and my back started to hurt quite badly ... I thought I had probably pulled a muscle or something and that given a few days it would start to heal ... 

By last night things had become worse ... I needed to get a project done for my Thursday group and thought that this would at least take my mind off things ... wouldn't you know it ... my trusty Big Shot broke! Yep, the handle just fell right off ... Oh how I love that machine .... Well that put paid to my project ... and another machine is on order ... Anywho ...
my pain problem kept me up all night ... Here in the UK we have Walk In centres ... like mini emergency rooms with nurses in charge ... so Hubby took me there to see if there was perhaps something I could take to help the pain ... Well what I thought was just probably muscular ... maybe even a trapped nerve - kinda escalated ... A few years ago I had kidney stones that caused awful pain ... the nurse having completed some tests today seems to think I may have dislodged another stone and that could be the problem ... I am now waiting on a call from my GP to see if I have to go back to hospital .. Yuk!!
Maybe they can just give me some pain relief ...  I just want to stay here and play with my craft things ... 
So, if I haven't visited your blogs in the next few days ... please know I haven't forgotten you or fallen out with you ... I am just temporarily "Out of Action" ok? Phew!


Till soon


~ Ros ~ 

Happy Birthday Linda!!

It's a very special day for my sweet friend Linda Robinson ... It's her Birthday!

So I am just popping in to wish her a very

 HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

I know there are lots of you lovely bloggers who would love to do the same ... so if you hop over to the City Crafter blog ... Kirsty has set up a special link

Here's my card to you Linda ... this should be with you when you get back from your trip ... 

... with a couple of little surprises ...

Have a wonderful day ... much love

~ Ros ~